oss cal heyy ; that ' { ah] ty Whe Rha; aa ad 4, andy \, ‘ Hi ! birt ia een bea de se ee ‘ty Mil, fi Yt ane PA hea Le) Vancouver, British Columbia, March 16, 1956 eRe Stop the tests! That’ s the demand which is ringing around world as the U.S. proceeds with plans for a new series of atomic tests in the Pacific. Saskatchewan gov’t Opposes atomic tests REGINA Opposition to the testing of &tomic weapons is the continu- ~ firm policy of the CCF gov- cement of Saskatchewan, Edu- ation Minister W. S. Lloyd in- °rmed a delegation sponsored at Saskatchewan Peace Coun- i on March 9. Peaking on behalf of the - 80Vernment, Lloyd told the more for n 60 delegates on an “Atoms- Wp e eace-Day-With-Your-MLA” ‘is his government had made ape tion known in the leg- ure and in other places. Other CCF MLAs who spoke against atomic tests and indi- cated they would support a re- solution along these lines were Hon. J. H. Sturdy, Hon. J. T. Douglas, Hon. J. W. Burton, James Gibson, J.. Walter Erb, Dempster H. R. Heming, W. H. Wahl, Harry Gibbs, Percy Brown, Niles L. Buchanan, R. A. Walker, Arnold Feusi, H. Begrand and A. T. Stone. _ Gibbs who moved the first resolution on peace to be pass- ed in the Saskatchewan legisla- ture last year, said he thought Continued on back page : See SASK. PROTEST GROWS India challenges Pacific H-tests World-wide demand for a stop to nuclear test explosions reached the halls of the United Nations this week as the U.S. government stuck by plans to carry out its greatest series of hydrogen-bomb detonations in the Pacific this spring. Speaking before the UN Trusteeship Council, in New York, Krishna Menon, leader of the Indian delegation, challenged the right of the. U.S. to hold the tests in Pacific islands which it governs under a UN trusteeship. In a move that reflected the anger engendered in Asia by the defiant American attitude, Men- on served notice that India would raise the matter before the World Court. (It is not known precisely when the U.S. tests, scheduled for the Bikinis, will take place. The U.S. Atomic Energy Com- mission announced early this month that the tests would be- gin some time after April 20. But, later, unofficial reports say the explosions will begin this week.) In Canada; a nation-wide cam- pagn began to urge the federal government to propose an in- ternational agreement whereby all countries would stop testing atomic weapons. A national peace deputation, organized by the Canadian Peace Congress and other groups, will visit Ottawa this coming Mon- day to ask MPs to press for such action by the government. The deputation will réquest the government to place a stop- the-tests proposal before the UN Disarmament Sub-Committee at its meeting in London later this month (Canada is one of the Continued on back page See PACIFIC Public demand can win all-Canadian pipeline ‘ \ ho A call for action to win an allC nking the country from West to East was ma Voicing the opinion Toughout the country, can become a reality, Pressed by J. B, Salsberg, former LPP member o Vincial leader. Published in Toronto. last week litte what appeared, only a feat while ago, as a partial de- can for the Canadian people, Victor’ turned into a resounding ory.” tones of Morgan’s statement digt® battle for an all-Cana- Slimane Pane is fast reaching a 8d it x. Since the LPP launch- it > Campaign two years ago, become a major issue across party and class nd thereby creating the lity of compelling the St. ‘. one government to discard © Minister C. D. Howe's Ut policy, The Trans-Canada franchise comes up. for consideration on April 30. What parliament does then depends to no small ex- tent on the pressure exerted by the people generally and the labor movement particularly in the intervening six weeks. And there is no doubt that this pres- sure is already being felt. Important national forces, which hitherto have been some- what passive, are now speaking up in a way that can decide the issue. : The action of the country's two biggest labor organizations, the Trades and Labor Congress anadian publiclyowned natural gas pipeline de this week by Nigel Morgan, LPP pro- that the all-Canadian project, widely supported Morgan’s call reflected the confidence ex- f the Ontario legislature, in a statement -and the Canadian Congress of Labor. in stating before the Gordon Commission that the Trans-Canada pipeline, as_ is now proposed, constitutes “a gigantic giveaway of a priceless and irreplacable resource” is evidence of the change that is taking place. The St. Laurent government cannot lightly dismiss the charge made by these two labor bodies that'the line, under the present agreement, “would be controlled by Americans primarily for Am- ericans” and that “it would Continued on page 6 See ALL-CANADIAN British flag burned Anti-British demonstrations in Greece and Cyprus have an- swered the announcement that Archbishop Makarios and three other Cypriot, leaders had been deported secretly from Cyprus to the remote Seychelles Islands in the Indian Ocean. Here Greek students are shown burning the British flag in Athens. The labor movement in virtually every country, including Britain itself, has denounced the Eden government’s action. .